Recent events have brought attention to the millions of Americans who struggle to find and
pay for housing. Housing has historically been of interest to sociologists, but it has long been …

The literature on the persistence of racial residential segregation in the United States has
made significant progress by moving beyond traditional explanations—socioeconomic …

This article argues that the expansion of shelter and welfare provisions for the homeless can
lead to increased criminalization of homeless people in public spaces. First, I document how …

This commentary considers policy implications of research in this volume and elsewhere,
and we emphasize the benefits of policy approaches that move “upstream,” to the prevention …

Visual data have dramatically increased in quantity in the digital age, presenting new
opportunities for social science research. However, the extensive time and labor costs to …

Recent research has documented the prevalence of informal housing across urban and
suburban contexts in the United States. While there have been some efforts to theorize …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic rendered congregate shelter settings
high risk, creating vulnerability for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). This study …

Measuring the pace and spatial distribution of gentrification is important to developing
policies to mitigate its negative consequences. Typically, this is done through an analysis of …

Visible signs of disorder serve as markers of difference across urban space. Sociological
theory suggests that variation in collective social control efforts contributes to variation in …

The location-based case-control design is a useful approach for studies where the
exposures of interest are aspects of the environment around the location of a health event …